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Corn stocks in all positions on March 1, 2015 totaled 7.74 billion bushels, up 11 percent from March 1, 2014. Of the total stocks, 4.38 billion bushels were stored on farms, up 13 percent from a year earlier. Off-farm stocks, at 3.36 billion bushels, are up 7 percent from a year ago.

On Tuesday, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the much-anticipated Prospective Plantings report. This report showed corn planted area to fall by 2 percent from 2014 to the lowest planted acreage in the country since 2010.

Wheat breeders, scientists and members of the global food security community celebrated Normal Borlaug's birthday during a week-long meeting hosted by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in the wheat fields of the Yaqui Valley near the town of Ciudad Obregon in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora.

Soybeans, once a novelty in Western Canadian fields, are poised to reach record-large acreage again this year, and some of the world's biggest seed companies are betting they have further room to grow in a country known for wheat and canola.

Syngenta’s most recent announcement of a signed commercial agreement with Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy (SIRE), to begin using Enogen corn enzyme technology at its Council Bluffs, Iowa, ethanol production facility following the 2015 harvest, brings to nine ethanol plants planning to use Enogen.

Fidelity Investments, a major investor in DuPont, has put pressure on activist fund Trian Fund Management LP and the chemical conglomerate to reach a settlement in what it sees as a detrimental proxy fight, according to people close to the matter.